hogback

• New York, It doesn't matter how long now I have been here, heading past the first hogback and into the Rockies is the moment the getaway mentality starts to kick in. —  The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories
• The water would then be pumped over a hogback to be stored in the reservoir. —  coloradoan.com - Local News
• They don't want to kill him and they can't get possession Now this Bar-O ranch is just over the hogback, south of us. —  David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story
• Rather a startling prophecy to make within eighteen months of their discovery, but it was hardly exaggerated It is impossible to say which of these three observers actually made the first discovery of Jurassic dinosaurs; whatever doubt there is is in favor of Mr. Reed Professor Lakes, accompanied by his friend Mr. E.L. Beckwith, an engineer, was, one day in March, 1877, hunting along the "hogback" in the vicinity of Morrison, Colorado, for fossil leaves in the Dakota Cretaceous sandstone which caps the ridge, when he saw a large block of sandstone with an enormous vertebra partly imbedded in it. —  Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections
• The way led at first up the narrow spine of a "hogback," but soon widened into one of the ample and spacious parks peculiar to the elevations near the summits of the First Rampart. —  The Rules of the Game

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